Bloody Monday Season 2 - Pandora's Box 16

Chapter 16

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Title: File 16 Footsteps from Hell
Box: The "Shooter of the Magic Bullet" has entered the "Phantom Subway Lines".
Box: The "Third Emperor"...
Box: The giant nuclear bomb "Tsar Bomba" is hidden there.

Box: If the plutonium leaks due to corrosion, the infection will spread both underground and above ground.
Box: It would transform Tokyo into a complete city of death.
Box: Volume 2 is on sale!! The TV drama airs at 8 on Saturdays!

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Kanou: So this is the entrance they used to get into the subway lines...!

Fujimaru: Please be okay.
Fujimaru: We're on our way, dad...!!

Kanou: ...Okay.
Kanou: Let's go.

Hibiki: You probably...

Hibiki: shouldn't open that door.

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Hibiki: Eh?
Hibiki: Isn't it obvious?

Hibiki: If they were thinking of the possibility of pursuers...
Hibiki: they would make the door look like it would be easily opened to put the pursuers off their guard and...
Otoya: ...A booby trap, huh?

Hibiki: It's a common tactic...
Hibiki: but it works.
Kanou: I can see something suspicious through the gap!
Hibiki: It's what I would do if I were them.

Kanou: I guess a terrorist would best know how terrorists think!
Hibiki: Eh?

Hibiki: You all are an anti-terror team too, so you need to think things through at least this much!
Kanou: ...Yeah, thanks!

Kanou: Armed Team, can you hear me!?
Kanou: The enemy and the target are in the "Phantom Subway Lines"!
Kanou: We're currently near Aoyama at the location we received!

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Kanou: The entrance here is booby trapped!
Kanou: You are to split up and head into the subway lines through different routes!
Kanou: We'll be chasing after the enemy after we find another entrance!
Armed Team: Armed Team here. Roger that!
Armed Team: Watch yourselves!

Kanou: You do the same!
Kanou: Okay! Let's go!
Kanou: We need to find a safe entrance and head in!
Minami: Roger!

Hibiki: ...Hee hee!
Hibiki: Did I come in useful,
Hibiki: Fujimaru-kun?

05

Ema: There!

Ema: If what I was told back then was true...
Ema: there should be another 5 marks.
Alexei: Snow White,
Alexei: how much longer until we reach the "Third Emperor"?

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Ema: Arthur,
Ema: if we don't run into any problems up ahead...
Ema: we'll be there within 10 minutes.

Alexei: 10 minutes...
Alexei: ...I see.

Alexei: Thank you, Snow White.
Alexei: Pinocchio...I know your "work" will take time...
Alexei: but have you found a way to speed things up?

Pinocchio: Unfortunately...
Pinocchio: We performed thorough simulations of assembling the parts...
Pinocchio: but no matter how fast we work, it'll take 45 minutes.

Ryuunosuke: I'd heard that the "Third Emperor" has less than twice the power than and is smaller than the "Tsar Bomba" the former Soviet Union used in its test.
Ryuunosuke: But the total weight is still 14 tons...

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Ryuunosuke: It was split into 60 different parts and taken into these tunnels...
Ryuunosuke: but one of the parts weighs more than 200 kilos.
Ryuunosuke: We can't carry it out of here with only this many people.

Ryuunosuke: They still have more than 5 days until the plutonium leaks out...
Ryuunosuke: Could it be...
Ryuunosuke: that Hino is planning on assembling and detonating the "Tsar Bomba" here in the tunnels...!!?

Alexei: We don't have time...
Alexei: but we have to leave someone here in the unlikely event that we were followed.
Pinocchio: Leaving out a person will make it take even longer...

Ryuunosuke: This is bad...
Alexei: If you count me in, we won't be slowed down any.

Ryuunosuke: If I'm the one who gets left here, I won't be able to find the location of the "Third Emperor".

08

Ryuunosuke: Bambi! You stay.
Ryuunosuke: I'll take the communications equipment.
Ryuunosuke: I just have to keep the booster for the transceivers at 60%, right?

Bambi: Let go of me, Beast!
Bambi: Don't act like the leader when Arthur's here!

Alexei: Beast,
Alexei: you stay.
Ryuunosuke: What...?

Alexei: I was intending to have you stay from the beginning.
Alexei: You are top class when it comes to battle ability after all.

Alexei: Think of this junction as a fortress and defend it with your life.

Ryuunosuke: ...Roger.
Ryuunosuke: Damn it. I lost my chance.
Ryuunosuke: What should I do!? It'll still be some time before "Third-i" gets here.

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Ryuunosuke: If I lose sight of Hino and the others in these dark tunnels...
Ryuunosuke: will I be able to find them again during their 45 minute assembly time!?

Alexei: Do your best, Beast.
Alexei: Okay...Everyone else go on ahead.
Ryuunosuke: W...
Ryuunosuke: Wait, Arthur.

Ryuunosuke: It's unconfirmed so I didn't mention it...
Ryuunosuke: but I received some disturbing information.
Alexei: What was it?

Ryuunosuke: There's a chance that the plutonium contained in the alpha part or core of the "Third Emperor" could be leaking.
Ryuunosuke: I got that information while I was in "Third-i".
Alexei: Yes...Peter Pan stole the same information from Russia.
Alexei: Just to be sure, we're being extra careful.

Ryuunosuke: R-right.
Ryuunosuke: Then you should take this.
Ryuunosuke: If the plutonium is leaking, this Geiger counter should tell you, right?

Alexei: I see.
Alexei: Thank you, Beast.
Ryuunosuke: I'm just being wary.

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Ryuunosuke: That went well.
Ryuunosuke: Mixed in with the electromagnetic waves emitted by the Geiger counter is a location signal sent by a transmitter hidden in it.

Ryuunosuke: Now I just have to meet up with Kanou and the others and tell them about this...!!
SFX: *grab*

SFX: *step*

SFX: *step*
SFX: *step*

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SFX: *step*

Ryuunosuke: Wh-what is it, Arthur?
Ryuunosuke: Did you forget something?
Alexei: Yes.

Alexei: I decided I needed to give this to you.

Ryuunosuke: This is...

Ryuunosuke: what I just gave you...!?

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Ryuunosuke: Wha...!?
Ryuunosuke: Arthur...What are you...!?

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Alexei: That's what I need to ask you,
Alexei: Beast.
Ryuunosuke: Gwah!

Alexei: I believed that we were comrades.
Alexei: But I'm convinced that you are a spy.
Alexei: Most unfortunate.

Ryuunosuke: Gh...
Ryuunosuke: R-ridiculous.
Ryuunosuke: My meetings with him after he was imprisoned in the special prison should have deepened his trust of me.
Ryuunosuke: What makes you think I'm a spy...!?

Ryuunosuke: How did he...?
Ryuunosuke: Is there really a spy in "Third-i"!?

Alexei: ...Let's see.
Alexei: Is it this spot that's easy to casually touch?

Middle text in SFX bubble: Beeep!
Smaller text around the middle one: *crackle* *crackle*

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Ryuunosuke: Gwaaah!

Alexei: That's a simple transmitter that can send its location information or Morse code by lightly tapping it with your fingertip.
Alexei: Do you have anything to say to me now?

Text above and below Ryuunosuke: Haa
Ryuunosuke: Before long...
Ryuunosuke: "Third-i" will be here!
Ryuunosuke: What can you do with only 4 people!?

Ryuunosuke: You can't take something as big as the "Third Emperor" out of these tunnels.
Ryuunosuke: Are you going to detonate it with a remote after assembling it and blow Tokyo away?

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Ryuunosuke: You'll get caught up in the blast!!

Alexei: I'm sure you know I'm doing this to accomplish a goal of mine.
Alexei: A cosmonaut flies to space knowing there is a chance he will die.
Alexei: If I were afraid of death, I wouldn't be able to accomplish my dream.

Ryuunosuke: Uh...

Ryuunosuke: Ugh...!?

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Ryuunosuke: Wh...
Ryuunosuke: What did you just do!?
SFX: *open*
Alexei: I'll be borrowing this, Beast.

Alexei: Is this it?
SFX: *beep*
SFX: *beep*

SFX: Rinnng
SFX: Rinnng
Alexei: ...Yes.

Alexei: Hello...
Alexei: Is this "Third-i"?
Alexei: This is Hino Alexei of the "Shooter of the Magic Bullet".

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Alexei: I've rendered your spy Takagi Ryuunosuke immobile in the subway tunnels...
Alexei: and injected him with a slow-acting neurotoxin.
Alexei: He has 50 minutes.

Ryuunosuke: Wha...!?

Ryuunosuke: Gaah!

Ryuunosuke: Gh...
Ryuunosuke: Waaah...
Alexei: As for the antidote...

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Alexei: I just...
Alexei: threw it somewhere in the tunnels.
Alexei: If you search for it as hard as you can, you'll find it.

SFX: *land*
SFX: *clatter*
Alexei: The inviolable rule of professionals is to leave behind anyone who has become nothing but a burden.
Alexei: Can your people do that?
Alexei: And it looks like you're going to be more of a burden than I was hoping you would!

Ryuunosuke: Hino...
Ryuunosuke: Damn you...!!

Japanese translation above Alexei's Russian: Farewell.
Japanese translation above Alexei's Russian: I once believed we were friends.

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Ryuunosuke: Hinooo!!
Ryuunosuke: Why!? Why would a man who was once an excellent cosmonaut like you be trying to perform this terrorist act that will leave nothing but ruin!?
Ryuunosuke: Answer me!!

Ryuunosuke: Alexeeeei!!!
Text: His scream doesn't reach him!! All that remains for him is 50 minutes of life!